{"id":494768,"date":"2026-03-25T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:15:09","slug":"dame-sarah-mullally-installed-as-archbishop-with-william-and-catherine-among-guests-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494768\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Sarah Mullally installed as archbishop with William and Catherine among guests &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mullally&#8217;s technically been archbishop since January &#8211; now it&#8217;s officialpublished at 16:03 GMT<\/p>\n<p>16:03 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally gestures after the service of confirmation of her election at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, where she officially became the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7b866150-4e0d-414e-9b84-5a3a12775921.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3274\" height=\"1841\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ve just seen Sarah Mullally installed, officially, as the new Archbishop of Canterbury &#8211; but she&#8217;s technically been in the role since a ceremony at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ceremony was a mix of religious service and legal process. It also included some newer elements, with an effort to include a wide range of voices from across the Church. Among those elements was a Portuguese reading, a nod to associations with Anglican churches in Angola and Mozambique, and also a South African Xhosa hymn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A heckler briefly interrupted proceedings in protest of Mullally\u2019s record on safeguarding, and was escorted from the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While she has been doing a lot of the &#8220;behind-the-scenes&#8221; bits of the job and having meetings since then, the more public-facing parts of her role, including leading public services, will start after what we&#8217;re seeing take place today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mullally&#8217;s technically been archbishop since January &#8211; now it&#8217;s officialpublished at 16:03 GMT 16:03 GMT Image source, Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-494768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}